Axl:Â “I like touring with [the current] guys a lot more than the old band. The beginning was fun but it started going bad our first gig opening for the Cult in Halifax betweenÂ SlashÂ and I. Thatâ€™s when the ok I put up with allÂ Axlâ€™s andÂ Izzyâ€™s crap now Iâ€™m gonna be the man trip started with him runninâ€™ right out front on the ego ramp for the whole show. It was pretty funny. :rolleyes:Â [Axl’s chat pÃ¥Â mygnrforum, 14 December, 2008]

Duff:Â “Guns N’ Roses started the Cult tour in Halifax on August 14, with shows almost every night for a little over a month. Halifax is in Nova Scotia, in the easternmost corner of Canada. Despite everything else, it was an exciting prospect […]. Hitting the stage that night was extra special. It did not matter in the slightest that there were maybe fifty people in the audience when we took the stage. One thing I hadn’t reckoned on were the barricades between the stage and the audience, leaving a ton of space where the building’s security personnel could gather and show their force. Because of that gap, the stage lights did not illuminate the few people in attendance. And all of those lights were blinding. The overall effect was to make us feel like we were playing to this big yawning void”Â [Duff’s biografi, “It’s So Easy”, 2011, s.126-127]

25 – Showet iÂ Winnipeg Arena, Canada, forlÃ¸ber uden de store problemer. FÃ¸r “Out Ta Get Me” fortÃ¦llerÂ Axl, at han altid kommer i problemer. Sangen tilegnes “cops everywhere who suck the big dick!” Efter sangen fortÃ¦ller han grunden til at de bliver udset er pga. “Mr. Brownstone“Â AxlÂ fÃ¸r “KOHD“: “We just went and played England. And we took a guy named Todd Crew, the bass player of a band called Jetboy, that he just got fired from. We took him as a roadie. We had a lot of fun. We went back to LA, he flew to New York and did a few too many drugs. It’s been a little while ago and I still fuckin’ can’t get over it. He’s the first person I’ve ever known who died.”SÃ¦tliste:Â It’s So Easy, Anything Goes, Out Ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Nightrain, Welcome To The Jungle, My Michelle, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, You’re Crazy, Paradise City

Slash: “It felt like a homecoming when The Cult tour arrived at the Long Beach Arena. I remember rolling in there late the night before and staring at the building, completely starstruck. I’d seen Ozzy, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Billy Idol, and countless others.”

Steven:Â “It’s sort of a rock ‘n’ roll ritual for the headlining act to play a practical joke on the opening band on the last night of the tour. I was definitely the people person of the band, so I was always in with the roadies and the bands we toured with. The Cult’s crew, and the band themselves, were all in on this practical joke. In New Orleans, during one of the last songs in our set, the Cult’s crew came out and took my drum set apart piece by piece. First, the cymbal, then the cymbal stand, finally the snare drum, until I was just sitting there looking like a dork. Izzy, Duff, Axl, and Slash were all pointing an laughing at me. The the guys brought the drum set back one piece at a time. Now, usually the opening bands dare not play a practical joke back at the headliners, but we got along so well, we knew it’d be cool. We got naked, with only towels wrapped around our waists. Then the five of us, and a couple of our roadies, walked onstage while the Cult was playing. I had mixed a disgusting concoction of eggs, mustard, and relish in a Styrofoam cup. I walked behind Ian [Astbury] holding it. He didn’t see me, and I motioned to the crowd, “Should I?” holding it over his head, ready to pour, and they were like, “Yeah!”. He turned around and started chasing me all over the stage. He grabbed at me and pulled the towel off of my waist. I was totally naked onstage in front of everyone”Â [Steven’s biografi, “My Appetite for Destruction”, 2010, s.131-132]

Slash:Â “It was our first headlining tour; it began in Germany, at the Markthalle in Hamburg on September 29, 1987. It was great to headline, but we had a few issues. Faster Pussycat was one of those bands we hated from L.A.; they were exactly the kind of people we tried to avoid. The tour was also a bit of a culture shock: Hamburg still felt like it was a post-World War II casualty – the place had a pretty narrow viewpoint. It was dark, industrial, sort of sour city that seemed, as a whole, as if they’d rather not have us there if they could help it. That kind of environment always inspired us to show our true colors more than usual, which didn’t go over well. Every time we’d walk into a restaurant, every head cranked around and the room got quieter. And when it did, we were all the more determined to order a bunch of drinks and smoke and carry on more than we ever would have in the first place. […] The next night we did the gig, the first one of our headlining tour, and it’s good that it didn’t set a precedent. The venue was on the water; it was this really industrial, dark room with benches and long tables on the sides. Everything in there was painted black – it was the blackest club I’ve ever seen and it just reeked of stale beer […]. The audience was without doubt the most lackluster crowd we had ever played to in our lives; as I recall, they were as cold and miserable as the weather. I remember that before we went on and the second we got off, the club played nothing but Metallica, nonstop. It was obvious that any American band, or any band at all, that didn’t sound like Metallica wasn’t going to go over. And I was right. We got through the show and the only thought going around in my mind when we finished was I would fucking hate to have to do this again tomorrow”Â [Slash’s biografi, s.205-206].Â Axl:Â “We went to Hamburg and I did a live radio interview. The first thing they did, they played me Steven Tyler talking on the radio. I happen to think that Aerosmith is one of the coolest band that has ever been, but he didn’t happen to think too highly of us. He didn’t think too highly at all.”

Slash:Â “If I had to choose my favourite show of the tour, it was the Paradiso in Amsterdam. The venue is amazing; it is a dark, foreboding building that used to be a church. Inside the main hall are high ceilings, arches, and great acoustics. So many legends have played there, from the Sex Pistols to the Stones, so I was excited to do it.”Â [Slash’s biografi, s.208]

Axl:Â “We did a show in Manchester. The people just stood there, they all stood up the whole time, right. And some of them were singing the songs and stuff but not so much as other places and we’re having so much problem with feedback on stage I didn’t know the people in the crowd weren’t hearing it through the […] monitor system. And so, we came back and did one song encore and left. We went up to our room, didn’t think they liked it. Right? Then about fifteen minutes later they started screaming, we didn’t know because we were like three stories up and in this room with securities keeping everybody away from us. The reviews have been “the world’s greatest band”. We thought they hated us but they were mesmerized”Â [Interview medÂ AxlÂ Rose, December 1987]

Slash: “We ended the tour on October 8, 1987, in London and it was amazing. The band was really coming into its own; we’d have enough road time by then to know what we were doing. […] The Hammersmith Odeon show was explosive; die-hard fans that I run into to this day tell me that it was the best show of ours they’ve ever seen.”

Axl: â€œIzzyâ€“ heâ€™s not usually the one to cause any trouble at all, but he got totally annihilated at this place called Hammerjacks â€“the most fucked place Iâ€™ve ever played. First, they got about thirty [uniformed] security guys that look like West Hollywood sheriffs. And Izzy got in arguments with them early in the day about some bullshit they were giving our crew, who were just trying to do their jobs. So Izzy got drunk, and was really hating this club. Then, right before we played, and there are more hassles, and Izzyâ€™s fucking sick of everything, he walked into the club managerâ€™s office and just whipped it out and pissed all over the guyâ€™s desk-with the guy sitting there! It just blew their minds. Then we go on, and Izzy is so drunk we had to turn his guitar down, and when he realized what was going on, he unstrapped the guitar and threw it into the crowd.â€

Slash:Â “I remember one particular night at L’Amour in Brooklyn, which was one of the most classic metal/hard-rock venues that anyone could ever play in New York City.Â IzzyÂ got totally drunk downing beers backstage while we were waiting to go on. But he remained cool in his own way -Â IzzyÂ was always funny like that. That night he let on like nothing was wrong, spending the entire show sitting on the tiny ledge between the top and bottom cabinet of his rig. It was hilarious to watch”Â [Slash’s biografi, s. 225-226].Â Duff:Â “The buzz about us seemed finally to be building in New York – we played another show at the famous Brooklyn hardcore club L’Amour billed only as “mystery guests.” Rumours that it would be us were enough to fill the place”Â [Duff’s biografi, “It’s So Easy”, 2011, s. 128].

Steven:Â “Next up was a show as CBGB, the famous punk rock club in Manhattan.Â DuffÂ was particularly excited because his heroes Iggy Pop and the Ramones had played there. A lot of my favourites like Blondie and Talking Heads has started out there too. When we got there, I said, “Are you sure this is CBGB?” It was the smallest room, very, very intimate. It held only like fifty to seventy people. I just couldn’t imagine that all those famous bands had played there. We performed an acoustic set and I rocked the tambourine. We debuted some songs that we hand’t played publicly yet. The lyrics “IÂ used to love her…but I had to kill her” from “Used to Love Her” got a huge laugh. And “Patience” got a very nice response. We also played “Mr. Brownstone” and “Move to the City”. Someone yelled out, “Drum solo!” so I shook the tambourine wildly. Everyone laughed”Â [Steven’s biografi, “My Appetite for Destruction”, 2010, p. 145]

Tommy Lee:Â “One night Slash wash drinking with me and Nikki and trying to keep up with os shot-for-shot on the Jack Daniel’s. We were sitting at the bar for hours drinking, then suddenly Slash put his head underneath the bar and puked everywhere. He was starting to go down, so we took him to his room, where he immediatly passed out. We set him on the bed and took a polaroid photo of Slash lying on his back passed out, and Nikki put his balls sac on his chin. That picture became Slash’s tour laminate: lying unconscious, with Nikki’s nuts sitting on his chin.”

Slash:Â “I was always amazed on that tour how MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e always had this whole intricate system going of people with walkie-talkies looking for blow. They always seemed to know where the nearest blow was, but to be honest, trying to stuff as much coke as I could into my face seemed pretty boring to me. Had it been a dope thing, it would have been a lot darker and more dramatic.

“AXL Rose being dragged off by security before being arrested while opening for MOTLEY Crue on the GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS tour.Â Anyone who has read the new AXL ROSE autobiography (WAR) will know about this since it is brought up during the USE YOU ILLUSION tour 2, when they talk about cancelling their ATLANTA show again because he was on probation in GA for what happened at this show in 1987.Â The band played one song (Its so easy) and then AXL yells out “Im gonna get you motherfu@@er” and jumps into the audience.Â I was in the back of the arena and thought it was a stunt to get AXL to the middle of the arena but LUCKY ME they dragged him out right under where I was sitting.Â For the Next 20 or so minutes the band played Rolling Stones covers, slash asked if we wanted to hear some road stories and kept saying AXL will be back in a few minutes, but he never returned and the band quickly left the stage.Â Â VINCE neal was too funny mentioning, I hope you enjoyed GUNS AND ROSES.Â I have a picture of AXL being dragged off,Â the blurring picture is AXL somewhere in that crowd and then 2 blurry pictures of the band without AXL on stage with them.

Axl:Â “In Atlanta I dived in and I had police saying I hit them. I never did, but I had to plead guilty because we didn’t have any money at the time. Lie? Yes, I guess I did lie once. I lied and said that I hit four cops. I guess we should reopen the case and take me to trial for perjury. But I didn’t have $56,000 to pay them off under the table.”

Izzy: “We played in Atlanta and Axl jumped off the stage to help out a fan who was getting beaten by these security guys. He never made it back on stage so we improvised a seven minute blues jam.”

Slash: [Efter Sacramento hÃ¦ndelsen] “we canceled a show in Atlanta [14. April, 1993] both to let Duff recover and because Axl had been arrested there during the Appetite tour for kicking in the head of a security guard whom he’d supposedly seen roughing up audience members.”

Nikki:Â “I just woke up (16:20). I was up till noon doing blow. We hired aÂ big conference room and just fuckinâ€™ went crazyâ€¦Slash,Â Tommy, Steven, Duff, some crew guys, a bunch of whoresÂ and cases and cases of booze. We have a dealer hereÂ who just gives the shit to us. He gave us each an 8-ball andÂ we did our best to do it all. It was insaneâ€¦we piled it all upÂ on the table. Iâ€™d never seen so much coke. Me and TommyÂ were trying to figure out how to cook it up so we couldÂ freebase it but we didnâ€™t have all the needed supplies. WeÂ tried our damnedest and ended up smoking it wet outta aÂ glass ashtray. My fingers are fucking blistered. I got about Â two grams sitting here on the table next to me. I should justÂ flush the shit but the guy will just bring more so I might asÂ well do a line and go to the chopperâ€¦fuck, I need a drinkâ€¦Â my hands are shaking.

P.S. Suzette came to my room before the party andÂ wanted to fuck me. Tommy was in here with me doing aÂ bump and I told her to leave. She got all crazy and I threwÂ her out the door and she slammed into the wall and startedÂ crying.”Â [Nikki’s bog]

Duff, 1988:Â So, we were up in the northern part of the country a couple of months ago and we met the likes of this character right here (points to Fred). He came to a few of our shows. You know, he told us that he practiced to our album. Drummers do that, Steve practices to Frankie Vallie and Fred practices to our album. We thought, Stevie broke his hand but weâ€™re obligated to finish this tour. Weâ€™re obligated to a lot of things actually. So we called Fred Coury and he was gracious enough to come out and do this for us.

Izzy: “We had Fred Coury come in from Cinderella for the show. Fred played technically good and steady, but the songs sounded just awful. They were written with Steve playing the drums and his sense of swing was the push and pull that give the songs their feel. When that was gone, it was just…unbelievable, weird.”

Slash: “We were in central Michigan […] when out tour manager told me that the gig was cancelled because something had happened with Alice [Cooper]. A few hours later we learned that his father has died. […] Duff was with [Steven] that night. […] For some reason Steven got so worked up that he punched a street lamp. He broke his hand entirely and was sidelined for something like six weeks. […] Within a day we hooked up with Fred Coury of Cinderella.”

Monica Gregory:Â “He got hassled a lot, for a variety of reasons. I donâ€™t want to go into it other than to say that it is legitimate. It happened to him in Chicago once – he was with my ex-husband at the time – and for very little reason, these guys started hassling them: “Who do you think you are? Bon Jovi?” It was like: “No, leave me alone”. The guys with the ties and short hair were yelling obscenities at Axl and Dana â€˜cause they got long hair. All the cops came in and basically beat the crap outta Axl. Just because.”

Slash: “The Perkins Palace shows were some of the best shows we’d ever done…and Fred Coury was playing. It was awful for Steve: he was standing there in his Clint Eastwood shawl, with one of those batter’s helmet hats with the two straws leading into cans of beer and his arm in a cast. I sort of felt sorry for him. He played tambourine; he was so pissed off”Â [Slash’s biografi, s. 223].